Section 3
SEC. 3. Any hospital director, administrator, officer-in-charge or physician in the hospital, medical center or Clinic, who shall refuse or fail without good cause to render the appropriate assistance pursuant to the requirements of section one after said case had been brought to his attention, or any nurse, midwife or medical attendant who shall refuse to extend the appropriate assistance, subject to existing rules, or neglect to notify or call a physician shall be punished by imprisonment of one month and one day to one year and one day, and a fine of three hundred pesos to one thousand pesos, without prejudice to the provisions of Republic Act Numbered Twenty-three hundred eighty-two in the case of physicians. In the case of Government hospitals, the imposition of the penalty upon the person or persons guilty of the violations shall be without prejudice to the administrative action that might be proper. In the case of private hospitals, aside from the imposition of penalty upon the person or persons guilty of the violations, the license of the hospital to operate shall, whenever justified, be suspended or revoked."